Yeah, and I guarantee you that he knows that iron and ore are the same damn thing in Settlers.

He's pretty famous; I don't know enough about the Youtube hierarchy to say exactly where he stands in the internet celebrity scale (perhaps JHMF can weigh in on the subject?), but *I* like him.

I don't want to spoil Santa, but most of us here are already aware of his deal, right?

He's a pretty intelligent, nice man, with a self-aware gamer parody persona. The couple of his real life persona vlogs have been extremely heartfelt and thoughtful. I've caught them randomly here and there.

I've seen real bar fights break out over this game.

I love Catan, and I hate it.
I love the Cities & Knights expansion because there are interesting balance tweaks and collaborative aspects, but man, if you just make a single wrong move at the wrong time, that's it, you're the pegboy for the rest of the game. Then it's just waiting 2-3 hours to politely come in 3rd or 4th place. That's just no fun.